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Subject: RE: Maps that show shipping routes?]
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 14:05:49 -0000
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Ilene Raynes:

There are items such as 'Lloyd's maritime atlas' deliberately aimed at
insurance firms and shippers: contains, i.a., routes and ports & harbours
plans.

For weather and currents the patron could turn to any national
hydrographic charting agency: our [British] Admiralty's Hydrographic
Office <http://www.ukho.gov.uk>, for example, produces and sells these
kind of *world-wide* charts (hard copy and electronic forms)- not just
charts of the British Isles!

For routes of specific minerals I leave to your US colleagues (partly on
account of accessibility of materials for your patron); it might be a
case of searching reference works/websites of specific industries.
Examples we have here are:-

World sulphur and sulphuric acid atlas & plant list / British Sulphur
[Corporation Ltd ; editor : Martin Pearce ; compiler : Martin Gentner].
- 5th ed. - London : British Sulphur Corporation, 1989. - 124p. : ill.
(some col.), col. maps ; 31 cm. - Includes 'Addenda and Corrigenda':
p.15. - ISBN 0-902777-89-0

World fertilizer atlas / British Sulphur [Corporation Ltd ; editor :
Sharon Thomas]. - 8th ed. - London : British Sulphur Corporation, 1987.
- 124p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 31 cm. - ISBN 0-902777-83-1


Francis Herbert (curator of Maps, RGS-IBG)
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From: Johnnie D. Sutherland [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 27 January 2004 21:42
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Subject: Maps that show shipping routes?]

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Subject: Maps that show shipping routes?
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 13:25:24 -0700
From: Ilene Raynes <[log in to unmask]>


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Hi-

We have a patron who's interested in examining maps that show shipping
routes/shipping lanes from any and all ports in Australia to East Asia.
Do such maps exist and if so, does anyone have them? He's also
interested in things like currents and weather on these routes and if
there are maps that would show the types and volume of the shipping
traffic (like what type of minerals are transported on these routes).
Any help would be appreciated.

Ilene

Ilene Raynes
Jerry Crail Johnson Earth Sciences and Map Library
University of Colorado - Boulder
Campus Box 184
Boulder, CO 80309
(303) 492-4487
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